Examining the Relationship between Self-Efficacy and Stimulus processing

Stimulus processing is an essential cognitive process that plays a vital role in our decision making and task execution. Since stimulus processing has been shown to be an important factor in task performance and cognitive well-being, it is necessary to explore the relationship it has with other psychological variables related to performance, as well as assess ways in which stimulus processing may be enhanced. The authors hypothesized that self-efficacy (SE) may improve performance by enhancing stimulus processing during task completion. To test this hypothesis, we examined the relationships between SE, behavioral measures of task performance, and neural indices of stimulus processing during the completion of two sessions of a modified flanker task. Behavioral measures included response accuracy and response time (RT), and neural indices included the P3b, an event-related brain potential associated with stimulus processing. Results showed that higher SE was associated with greater response accuracy and P3b amplitude during task execution in the first session. After SE manipulation, results indicated a significant effect of the feedback manipulation on SE, but no significant influences on P3b, accuracy, reaction time, or changes in those measures across sessions. These findings suggest that SE is beneficially related to neural indices of stimulus processing, and improved stimulus processing may help explain the association between SE and improved task performance. However, our specific manipulations of task-related SE are not sufficient to significantly improve subsequent stimulus processing

Degradation of Ice-Formed Beach Deposits

Ice-push ridges and kaimoos are depositional features formed by ice on Tabusintac Beach, New Brunswick. These features are transformed into ridge-and-runnel systems when subjected to wave processes. Kaimoo and ice-push ridges 1) protect the beach from storms for a few-week period, 2) induce deposition of sand at the upper beachface and 3) leave a lag deposit of cobble which may be a significant source of cobble transported across the beachface during summer storms

Out of this World: An Ethnographic Study of Mystics, Spirits, and Animist Practices in Senegal

Although the overwhelming majority of Senegal’s inhabitants consider themselves Muslim, there are still many customs and behaviors throughout the country that derive from traditional animism. In both the metropolitan regions and village settings, animist beliefs and practices are still present despite many influences including Islam and colonialism. Animist practices often work in conjunction with the very schools of thought that deem them forbidden. The purpose of this study is to explore surviving animist traditions in Senegal, their role in the present context, and animism’s relationship with Islam in order to fully understand the Senegalese culture in which these traditions play an important role. My research looks at major surviving animist practices, their influence in daily life, and how they have lasted into the present context

Strategic Traditions for the Asia-Pacific Region

Tradition has both positive and negative implications. It may be valuable lessons learned, lessons paid for with blood, but tradition may also be habits of the last war that make it difficult to see and react to change. There is good reason to think that future conditions in the Asia-Pacific region will not be consistent with what the strategic traditions of the U.S. military tell us we can expect

A comparative study on the right to maintenance under Civil and Muslim Law / Rosslin Peter Rosen

The purpose of this paper is to make a comparative study on the right to maintenance under Civil and Muslim Law. This topic was chosen because of the writer’s interest in the law of maintenance while she did her practical training in Sarawak Legal Aid Bureau in Kuching after her second year of study in December, 1984. I t is aimed that this paper would bring out similarities and contrasts of the various laws in force in Malaysia governing the right of married women (and men) and children to maintenance and also the extent of the protection of this right. A marriage, being a civil contract regardless whether it is solemnised under Civil or Muslim Law, creates and imposes mutual rights and obligations. Maintaining a spouse and children of the marriage is one of the obligations imposed on spouses or parents. Different laws apply to different sets of people because of the legal history and different religions practised by the multi-racial population of Malaysia

Chionactis occipitalis

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Chionactis palarostris

Number of Pages: 5Integrative BiologyGeological Science